makes a 30 pin SD card slot adapter it's at the bottom of the iPad features page. Flash would be great, but I am seeing how this could be used in my house more and more lately.
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makes a 30 pin SD card slot adapter it's at the bottom of the iPad features page. Flash would be great, but I am seeing how this could be used in my house more and more lately.
You mean a few weeks AFTER the release of the product?
Jeez. Being impatient out of your mind is your issue, not everybody else's. It is very common that Apple announces stuff and delivers 30 days later. This time it's 60 days. omg. A totally different situation. NOT.
To get the facts straight: they ARE different. They showed an actual product and gave quite a palpable shipping date in the very near future.
Finally. We have members who actually use common sense and apply logic.
Apple half-assed this product. They added a e-Book to a 10" iPod touch. They didn't add any other compelling new first party apps with new gestures or 'Apple-esque" features that one would expect.
that's probably because $500 is cheap for Apple. But it's still expensive for the niche it's supposed to fill: Netbooks. I got my netbook for less than $300, and it's probably about as fast as the iPad. My friend got his for $350, and runs OS X on it. That will do more than the iPad, and it's cheaper too. So yeah, $500 is good in the Apple world, but still about $150 too much in the real world.
Drop the price to $350 and give it an SD and USB slot, and I'd be sold...
Yet people will still find something to complain about...
I'm buying this as an ebook reader and web browser. I care less about Flash; I just installed v10.1 beta and got a kernel panic for the first time.Adobe should make their player open source so Apple can fix it themselves.
Do you know what beta means? Maybe that's why you're having a problem....
on second thought, they're probably going to need to hike the price to pay for all these copyright lawsuits.
Personally I hope once the iPad flops, Amazon sticks it to the publishers, dropping ebook pricing to $6.99, and sells them at a gain at the publishers expense. Authors getting screwed by your publishing company? Come join Amazon Publishing co!
Personally I hope once the iPad flops, Amazon sticks it to the publishers, dropping ebook pricing to $6.99, and sells them at a gain at the publishers expense. Authors getting screwed by your publishing company? Come join Amazon Publishing co!
3G cost
Many folks here complain about the 3G cost. It is not just the 3G but includes the GPS and Compass. These are big deals to me, I cannot wait to have this big GPS in my RV. In fact I cannot imagine not getting an iPad without GPS. Maybe it is not that important to geeks, but most folks I know are very excited about 3G, GPS and compass.
Many folks here complain about the 3G cost. It is not just the 3G but includes the GPS and Compass. These are big deals to me, I cannot wait to have this big GPS in my RV. In fact I cannot imagine not getting an iPad without GPS. Maybe it is not that important to geeks, but most folks I know are very excited about 3G, GPS and compass.
That is because the iPad is not for geeks, let alone "alpha geeks". It is mainly for mom+dad who don't want to be hassled with computers. Some geekier people might find a good use for it (e.g. professional photographers who want to show their work to clients come into my mind), but these are small, fractioned groups that wouldn't buy enough of these things to justify its existence.
They need to fix the 3G version issue. $130 for a 3G version is stupid. There shouldn't be an additional cost for a stupid small antenna/radio - just put it in all units and then make the unlimited cost $20/month.
Also, I certainly won't be buying one until the rev. 2 ... and until text books come to the iPad, as I am a college student.
Also, I certainly won't be buying one until the rev. 2 ... and until text books come to the iPad, as I am a college student.
The compass is separate and comes in the WIFI model as it also does in the Touch.
I had a dream last night that I had an iPad.
I was the cool kid in town.
I know how that feels until everybody's got one.
Who is dumb enough to purchase a $499 iPad over a $99 iPhone? They both pretty much do the same. Only bigger screen and advanced programming on the iPad. I can't see Apple selling a lot of these the first year. Prices will come way down for them.
You're right, they should quit while they are ahead and close business and recycle any remains of the iPad.
Dumb enough
I am dumb enough to buy one for me and one for the wife. I am also dumb enough to have added another 100 APPL after waiting for the 10% drop following the presentation. Always happens BTW. So iCal me as I predict this device will be a huge success. I bet on it, already made $600 on those few shares. and expect to make a lot more. Buy APPL and you will soon be able to buy iPads.
I am dumb enough to buy one for me and one for the wife. I am also dumb enough to have added another 100 APPL after waiting for the 10% drop following the presentation. Always happens BTW. So iCal me as I predict this device will be a huge success. I bet on it, already made $600 on those few shares. and expect to make a lot more. Buy APPL and you will soon be able to buy iPads.
No, its not just for 'mom and dad', its for anyone who wants to perform tasks, not dick around with computers. That includes a LOT of us 'super users' who know we don't have to carry around a heavy-duty content/application development platform with us everywhere we go.
Again... I get tremendously more real-world usefulness out of my iPhone than I do out of my home desktop machine. The one-size-fits all (or at least fits the priesthood) model is dead. Long live the useful computer.
I hear you
I"m a hardcore apple fan and I buy many apple products. I usually cut apple some slack, but this iPad has me puzzled. There are some major missing features that would make it the "best" browsing and sharing experience.
I was hoping that i can use this thing to share my keynote with other, so I was hoping for a way to connect it to an external monitor, "to share pictures and videos, etc..." to the entire family. What's the use of being able to view/create beautiful keynote, numbers, pages, pdf, if you can't share it with other people like project partners and family members, etc..... I also was hoping for a front webcam. I know apple usually lack some features in the 1st gen. to make their later gen. look better and have better selling points, but for goodness sake, they even put a webcam in the ipod mini. Why not the iPad? They even had the hole cut out in the frame, but chose not to put a webcam in it. What the heck?
Steve, I'll be glad to pay you $100 more if you put the webcam in the 1st gen. iPad. I hope your first gen. iPad fail.
I'll wait until it has at least a webcam.
I"m a hardcore apple fan and I buy many apple products. I usually cut apple some slack, but this iPad has me puzzled. There are some major missing features that would make it the "best" browsing and sharing experience.
I was hoping that i can use this thing to share my keynote with other, so I was hoping for a way to connect it to an external monitor, "to share pictures and videos, etc..." to the entire family. What's the use of being able to view/create beautiful keynote, numbers, pages, pdf, if you can't share it with other people like project partners and family members, etc..... I also was hoping for a front webcam. I know apple usually lack some features in the 1st gen. to make their later gen. look better and have better selling points, but for goodness sake, they even put a webcam in the ipod mini. Why not the iPad? They even had the hole cut out in the frame, but chose not to put a webcam in it. What the heck?
Steve, I'll be glad to pay you $100 more if you put the webcam in the 1st gen. iPad. I hope your first gen. iPad fail.
I'll wait until it has at least a webcam.
Maybe you can explain to me how mom+dad+thekids are going to share this device?
How are they going to manage their different web bookmarks, email accounts and app preferences on a device that has a common interface and no user accounts?
I can just see how well it pans out to have everyone in the family having their email all on this device and the fights that ensue when someone reads another family members mail or sees what web pages they have visited.
Apple has a lot to address with this thing before they sell the first million, that's for sure.
Nobody knows what beta means. That's because of corporations like Google that keep nearly every application they produce in beta for three years minimum, but make sure it is usable by just about anyone who wants to use it. The term beta just doesn't mean anything anymore.
I think that I "get" Apple products just fine. I have multiple macs, multiple iPhones and multiple iPods.
Apple products are wonderful because they are well designed, intuitive and absolutely rock at their intended purpose.
I fail to see how an iPad shows up in a family home and does this for multiple family members.
Or maybe, since it's just a giant iPhone at this stage, everyone in the family is expected to get their own?
It's pretty sad that even with a 60 day lead time on ship date Apple couldn't make a more compelling case for why people want this product.
I'm sure it will sell reasonably well and will quickly be adopted in certain niche areas such as the medical field.
What I don't see is a reason that the typical family will want a device that's aimed at a single user.
Right until Mom & Dad visits some of their favorite web pages, and calls their geek son or daughter to explain to them why there are little blue boxes on their new shiny iPad, while the same page showed up fine on their old and cranky Windows XP desktop.
The thing hasn't even come out yet, and you all seem to know what Apps are on it. Developers are now just getting started making apps for the iPad, I'm sure they'll be bigger, better, and more powerful than what's out there now for the iPhone/iTouch. How many of you have seen one in person? I haven't! It's too early to judge something before you get to actually play with it, and see what Apps are being developed at release time.
Still puzzled why people who love the iPhone/Touch yet recognize its limitations don't see the value in a similar device but with a bigger screen for a more enjoyable experience while not near a computer, but not "on the go" either. What is so wrong with wanting basic computer functionality without the burden of a laptop.
Seems to me the H8TRs are like little girls who ask for a pony for their birthday but get a bike instead, and retaliate by saying bike's sux.
Seems to me the H8TRs are like little girls who ask for a pony for their birthday but get a bike instead, and retaliate by saying bike's sux.